“Checkered Past,” is the winner of the 50th annual Ridler Award at the 2013 Detroit Autorama show.

Each part of “Checkered Past” is an artform of its own and the challenge was pulling all of those parts together, trying to make a car that works from front to back.
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CAL Automotive Creations specializes in customization. Their passion is to blend old styles with new and building a completely custom moving sculpture.
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The beauty of CAL Creations is that everything is custom. If they buy a store-bought part, they usually cut it up and create something of their own. You won’t find a single bolt-on part on his latest creation. All of their cars have a unique, modern twist to vintage classics. As far as the future of CAL Creations and Andy’s goals, he says, “Right now we’re buried in projects, which is a really good sign. We just want to keep growing, add a few more employees and a few more projects.” Eventually Andy says they will move into a new building and wants to get into other areas selling machining and fabrication parts. But his primary focus will remain to be hot rods.

A flathead motor enthusiast, Erik Hanson is a fabricator and welder with CAL Automotive Creations. As a hobby, he worked on cars with his dad at his shop in Valley, Nebraska and always wanted to build cars.